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Would the death penalty turn terror suspects into martyrs? There’s unrest in the Dem caucus over Afghanistan. Dobbs polls at six percent in the 2012

Sen. Al Franken and 16 other senators are proposing a constitutional amendment that would return the authority to regulate money in political campaigns to state and federal governments, an ability that was partly undermined by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision

Latino children ages 17 and younger represent the highest number of children living poverty in the U.S., according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released Wednesday.

A WMUR Granite State poll released Thursday shows the majority of voters in New Hampshire oppose efforts of state Republicans to repeal the state’s

TWI’s Annie Lowrey and the Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll recorded an episode of Bloggingheads.tv that went up today. The theme? The political ironies of

For the second time this week, the House tonight passed a health care reform bill designed to complement the larger reform package that President Obama signed

Bryan Fischer , an analyst for the American Family Association, is well known for controversial statements about LGBT people (“gay sex is a form of domestic terrorism”) and Muslims (inbreeding has caused “lowered intellectual capacity”), false or misleading statements that have landed the AFA on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of “hate groups.” On Thursday, shortly before he interviewed Rep.

I wouldn’t have guessed it, but after looking into the names of 14 people pardoned and another 2 who had their sentences commuted by President George W. Bush

Pelosi fills Kennedy’s shoes on health care. The no’s on the House health bill received one-third more from health insurance interests than the

Delaware will likely soon join Hawaii, Illinois and New Jersey in allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions. Same-sex marriage advocates and critics alike

Rasmussen Reports (more about them here) polls Minnesota voters and finds them reasonably confident that DFLer Al Franken will be their next senator and just

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In a closed-door meeting with industry groups today, the three senators crafting climate legislation revealed the broad strokes of their bill and met with

The Obama administration today announced plans to abandon a controversial last-minute Bush-era rule that made it easier for mining companies to fill valleys and

Seriously, even if the invitation is a diplomatic courtesy, this is unseemly. The goons of the Iranian regime are murdering protesters. They shouldn’t be

In a recent interview, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a friend of Florida Gov. Rick Scott and a likely GOP presidential candidate, says that he prays for the

Uninsured women are three times more likely than the well-insured to have their breast cancers diagnosed when it may be too late to cure them, according to a

Good news for DREAM Act supporters: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced today the act will be added as an amendment to the defense

From the department of irony... It turns out that Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.), who announced today that he’ll be resigning over news of an affair with a

The Club For Growth, which is backing GOP candidate Joe Miller in his Alaska Senate bid, released the results of a new survey it commissioned yesterday that

A key administration official charged with overseeing the country’s offshore drilling pushed back yesterday against allegations that drilling inspectors in the

State Sen. Roger Reinert (DFL-Duluth) and state Rep. Carly Melin (DFL-Hibbing) will support Duluth City Council Member Jeff Anderson in his bid for the DFL nomination for the 8th Congressional District